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On Art (Paperback)
Ilya Kabakov; Edited by Matthew Jesse Jackson
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R1,110
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During the 1960s and 1970s, the Russian conceptual artist Ilya
Kabakov was a galvanizing figure in Moscow's underground art
community, ultimately gaining international prominence as the
“leader” of a band of artists known as the Moscow Conceptual
Circle. Throughout this time, he created texts that he would
distribute among his friends, and by the late 1990s his written
production amounted to hundreds of pages. Devoted to themes that
range from the “cosmism” of pre-Revolutionary Russian modernism
to the philosophical implications of Moscow’s garbage,
Kabakov’s handmade booklets were typed out on paper, then stapled
or sewn together using rough butcher paper for their covers. Among
these writings are faux Socialist Realist verses, theoretical
explorations, art historical analyses, accompaniments to
installation projects, and transcripts of dialogues between the
artist and literary theorists, critics, journalists, and other
artists. This volume offers for the first time in English the most
significant texts written by Kabakov. The writings have been
expressly selected for this English-language volume and there
exists no equivalent work in any language.
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The Francis Effect (Paperback)
Noah Simblist; Tania Bruguera; Contributions by Matthew Jesse Jackson, Saskia Sassen, Nicholas Terpstra
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R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
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"The Francis Effect was about proposing something completely
absurd, as absurd as borders are. If Immigrant Movement was for the
thousands of people who went there, The The Francis Effect was just
for one person, the pope. But the more people that participated,
the more personal it became." -Tania Bruguera Stemming from a
performance that originated at the Guggenheim Museum, The Francis
Effect explores Tania Bruguera's work as an artist, activist, and
Cuban immigrant to the US engaging the tension between art's
pragmatic, activist, and aesthetic possibilities. The performance
of The Francis Effect follows the guise of a political campaign,
aiming to request that the Pope grant Vatican City citizenship to
all immigrants and refugees. As a conversational, collaborative
project, the resulting book mirrors Bruguera's artistic practice
with essays and conversations from the the curators and Bruguera.
In addition, the book-project is embiggened by socially-engaged
commissioned essays from art historian Our Literal Speed,
sociologist Saskia Sassen, and historian Nicolas Terpstra. A
groundbreaking interdisciplinary discussion of borders, Pangaea,
sociology, and religious studies, The Francis effect offers art as
a vehicle for social change, placing this work in the context of
its creative and critical reception.
A compelling study of unofficial postwar Soviet art, The
Experimental Group takes as its point of departure a subject of
strange fascination: the life and work of renowned professional
illustrator and conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov. Kabakov's
art-iconoclastic installations, paintings, illustrations, and
texts-delicately experiments with such issues as history,
mortality, and disappearance, and here exemplifies a much larger
narrative about the work of the artists who rose to prominence just
as the Soviet Union began to disintegrate. By placing Kabakov and
his conceptualist peers in line with our own contemporary
perspective, Matthew Jesse Jackson suggests that the art that
emerged in the wake of Stalin belongs neither entirely to its lost
communist past nor to a future free from socialist nostalgia.
Instead, these artists and their work produced a critical and
controversial chapter in the as yet unwritten history of global
contemporary art.
Ilya Kabakov (*1933) is one of the former Soviet Union's most
important and influential international artists today. After the
two-volume catalogue raisonne of paintings (2008) and 2017's
catalogue raisonne of installations, we are now publishing a
complete overview of Kabakov's recent paintings. Different ideas,
phases, and styles unfold across the 350 works of art, but the
artist's inimitable signature can always be recognised. Visual
themes include, for example, the colour white, the relationship
between complete and incomplete, and the combination of either
various styles or of painting and photography. Still, all of the
pieces have one thing in common: they all pursue a conceptual
approach and make references to art history.
Working together as a husband-wife team for the past three decades,
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov have defined and pushed Eastern European
conceptualism to epic levels. Their large-scale installations and
paintings seamlessly merge both reality and myth to create
hyper-theatrical environments. By integrating the visual culture of
the former Soviet Union from the 1950s to '70s into the traditional
lexicon of art history, their work addresses universal ideas of
utopia, fantasy and hope, as well as fear and oppression. The
exhibition Paintings about Paintings at Dallas Contemporary and the
accompanying catalogue focus on the most recent body of work, some
of which never-before seen. Text in English and Spanish.
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